Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctor McRae , the only one to have survived the cruise unscathed , has tripped on a kerbstone and broken his foot . |
| 2 | He calculated it was not possible for Sandy , kneeling on that platform , to reach down to the beam , impossible for her to have attached the rope from that perch . |
| 3 | He had too , she realised , although she had been too absorbed in her own clumsy , hopeless awareness of him to have taken the fact in until now . |
| 4 | One wore a black felt hat , and his shoulder-length hair and beard were silver enough for him to have known the beatnik era . |
| 5 | For example , in answer 4 we did not say ‘ Mr and Mrs Smith will keep their home nice and clean ’ for by whose standards would we judge them to have met the goal ? |
| 6 | Now she would have liked them to have covered the warmth of the hand which Mr Carson took lightly in his . |
| 7 | Now when that acid is fresh and has n't been used before two minutes is usually quite enough for it to have done the job it 's supposed to do . |
| 8 | For these ratios to depart erroneously from 1.0 would require us to have overestimated the area of the enclosed cortex , or underestimated the number of enclosed retinal ganglion cells , by factors of 2.7 ( R54 ) and 4.2 ( R151 ) . |
| 9 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |